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The Spoken Wood: August 2010
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Friday, August 27, 2010. This chair and I do not get along. I want it to be a chair. It wants to be a pile of sticks. I have a customer who also wants it to be a chair. The problem is the seat, obviously. Its an English Windsor chair with an elm seat and yew turnings. The yew, as is typical, is brittle and bug eaten. So when my client, who is of Yeti genes, sits in this chair likes its an Eames easy chair, it protests by snapping its spindles. Monday, August 23, 2010. What would you do? The antique trays...
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The Spoken Wood: January 2011
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Sunday, January 23, 2011. My chest is made of eastern white pine and mahogany with veneers and inlays of rosewood, mahogany, zebrawood, and ebony. Its painted with milk paint and I had the Federal eagle painted on the front by a local painter. In the shop it sits on a dolly and is easily rolled to where its needed. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States. View my complete profile. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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The Spoken Wood: December 2010
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Friday, December 17, 2010. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I am a self-employed furnituremaker working on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. I have been working with wood for thirty years; sometimes part time, presently all the time. I am passionate about the study and reproduction of American period furniture forms. My practice also includes conservation and repair of antiques; working closely with private clients, antique dealers and museums. Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States. View my complete profile.
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The Spoken Wood: November 2010
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Thursday, November 11, 2010. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I am a self-employed furnituremaker working on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. I have been working with wood for thirty years; sometimes part time, presently all the time. I am passionate about the study and reproduction of American period furniture forms. My practice also includes conservation and repair of antiques; working closely with private clients, antique dealers and museums. Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States. View my complete profile.
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The Spoken Wood: February 2011
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Sunday, February 6, 2011. Reprint from: Woodwork Joints by William Fairham. Fox wedging is a technique where the end of a tenon is split and a wedge is inserted, before fitting said tenon into a blind-mortise (a through-mortise can be wedged from the outside). As the piece is hammered home the wedge bottoms out in the mortise forcing the tenon to spread and wedge in the mortise. It makes for a very strong joint. Above you can see the wedge in the right spindle hole. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Spoken Wood: October 2010
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Friday, October 29, 2010. A pommel knife (bottom) is a chairmakers tool. It is basically a drawknife with one of the handles in line with the blade. This configuration allows the chairmaker to shape the chair seat in the area of the pommel (the raised area at the front of many windsor chair seats). This tool was developed beacause the bent handle of the drawknife would not allow the tool to negotiate the curve of the pommel. Tuesday, October 12, 2010. Tuesday, October 5, 2010. You're Building a Boat?
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Baltimore Tables and other Furniture – Kevin Cross Studio
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Baltimore Tables and Other Furniture. August 12, 2012. H 32″ W 36″ D 16″. Click image to open enlargement window. Click image again to magnify. Use back button to return. This Baltimore style table is based upon a similar table in the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum. The most notable difference is that the original model is a games table, whereas this side table is taller, with a drawer concealed in the frieze. Http:/ www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/10001481. Resultsperpage=...
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The Spoken Wood: Shakin' and Tiltin'
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Friday, December 17, 2010. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am a self-employed furnituremaker working on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. I have been working with wood for thirty years; sometimes part time, presently all the time. I am passionate about the study and reproduction of American period furniture forms. My practice also includes conservation and repair of antiques; working closely with private clients, antique dealers and museums. Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States. View my complete profile.
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The Spoken Wood: Bevy of Bunn
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010. Here you see a series of Bunn feet for a ship model case. The client wanted ivory feet. The best that I could come up with is holly. They turned out pretty well. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Youre Building a Boat? Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States. View my complete profile. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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The Spoken Wood: "You're Building a Boat?"
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010. You're Building a Boat? Yes, that seems to be the response from people when I reveal my latest project endeavor. The follow-up question then being "have you ever built a boat? The boat that I plan to build is a Herreshoff 12-1/2. I fell in love with this boat after bumping into her at the Woods Hole Historical Museum. October 5, 2010 at 6:13 PM. Thats gorgeous boat. Good luck to you with this project. October 5, 2010 at 11:09 PM. May your curves be fair. I am a self-employed fur...